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Two law firms announced plans last week to move offices in their home cities.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce shouts “JOBS” with two-story-tall block letters strung on its building facing the White House.
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Congress should extend expiring tax cuts and find alternatives to automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect in 2013, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in a letter to lawmakers.
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There’s almost universal agreement that the U.S. faces a catastrophic threat from cyber attacks by terrorists, hackers and spies. Washington policy makers just don’t seem able to do anything about it.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is urging the new congressional deficit-reduction committee to overhaul the tax code without taking a position on the central issue of whether higher taxes should be part of the proposal.
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Business groups counting on Republican gains in Congress to deliver their legislative agenda are voicing frustration over obstacles within a party usually allied with their interests.
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The Republican victories in Congress mean U.S. companies from Goldman Sachs Group Inc . to WellPoint Inc . may be able to weaken or block what they consider President Barack Obama ’s anti-business policies on health care, the environment, taxes and financial reform.
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Deficit-reduction principles backed by more than 80 U.S. chief executive officers are so broad that anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist and an ally of President Barack Obama both claim their plans could satisfy the standards.
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Ben Nelson doesn’t face re-election to the U.S. Senate for another year and won’t know his opponent until next May. Yet advertising attacks on the second-term Democrat began months ago.
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President Barack Obama won praise from business groups that have criticized his labor, health and financial regulatory policies after he agreed to extend tax cuts for all Americans and cut workers’ payroll taxes.